Week 1 - Introduction Flashcards
What is Task Management?
Understanding the job, placnning what to do, getting it done, evaluating the outcome then asking ‘what now’?
List of requirements for me, for effective study:
- Comfortable desk & chair
- appropriate lighting
- computer, keyboard, mouse, internet connection
- Highlighters, pens w/ wide rubber grips, notebook
- Brainscape
- ear plugs, noise cancelling headphones
- water, chocolate
On wall in study space:
- Calendar of due assessment items, readings etc
- study plan for achieving this
- plans for studying at work and on mobile devices
Tasks tend to expand to fill the time available. True or false?
True!
Budget free time, housework and time with specific family members. Include holidays.
Be specific about free time activities to maintain a balanced life. Be specific about housework tasks.
Plan a strategy to enable location of specific texts and information - a logical way of organising data and managing publications details of these texts.
Referencing software - EndNote, ProCite, MS words citation tool etc. See Wikipedia entry on reference-management software.
Schedule and carry out backups of semesters work
- USB stick
- CD-rom
- ?
Useful for reflection on me as a learner:
Skills audit - www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/studyskills/essentials/start/index.html
Time management help:
www. time-management-guide.com.index.html
www. mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm
Resources for time management, study skills and learning styles:
Communicating in the Health Sciences 3rd Ed. by Higgs, Ajjawi, McAllister, Trede and Loftus (2012) - end of ch 5
Type of academic writing: Argue, defend or critique a PoV.
Essay
Type of academic writing: Develop and provide evidence for a position.
Thesis
Type of academic writing: Inform clients or colleagues about a client’s or group’s needs or problems, and make recommendations for intervention.
Clinical report
Type of academic writing: Inform relevant others about your treatment of a client to date.
File notes.
Type of writing: May incl. a needs assessment, program proposal, budget and plan for evaluation.
Community Health Proposal
Type of writing: Informs colleagues, and can also serve to advocate for your client and persuade colleagues to adopt a particular view of the client’s needs.
A case presentation
Type of writing: Explain to a client how to do something (such as self-care procedures at home).
Treatment plans, or self-management programs.
Type of writing: Describe a procedure and how to execute it.
Technical report
Type of writing: May include the planning or evaluation of a community health education intervention program.
Public Health Reports
Where can I find guidelines for clear academic writing in Health?
Communicating in the Health Sciences 3rd Ed. by Higgs, Ajjawi, McAllister, Trede and Loftus (2012) Ch. 6, esp p57
What are the 10 Ps of Academic Writing?
- People
- Purpose
- Preparation
- Principles
- Process
- Progression
- Position
- Product
- Proofing
- Presentation
In the 10 Ps of Academic writing, explain: PURPOSE
- Why am I writing? - use different styles and approaches to explain, pursuade and debate
- what is the goal? - Match content and style to goal
In the 10 Ps of Academic writing, explain: PREPARATION
- How can I investigate this topic? (which fields of lit. to investigate, what kind of data needed?)
- How do I sort, store and organise information, data and lit. I collect? - Set a timeframe. - Develop system for sorting, collating and filing data to easily access for writing the appropriate section of the paper. Set up Ref. management system like EndNote)
- What are the findings of my research
In the 10 Ps of Academic writing, explain: PRINCIPALS
- What are rules of academic writing and referencing? (Indicate primary and secondary sources)
- What styles and requirements are set by the discipline?
